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@nekunando No Wave Race? I'm honestly shocked! I was expecting all 5 of your nominations to be that!

It was very close

I've always said that Blue Storm is one of my favourite games ever and I played that several years before finally getting Wave Race 64 on eBay during my university days!

If I had played it back when it came out and didn't have the nostalgia for Mario Kart 64 and all of the multiplayer fun we had, Wave Race 64 would have taken that spot.. but there are honestly so many games I hate having to leave out..

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OK everyone, obligatory reminder that today is the last day for N64 nominations.

OK, here's mine, but I absolutely refuse to vote for Animal Crossing as an N64 game and will almost certainly vote for it on the GameCube list. If that nullifies my voting so be it, but seeing as the game was exclusive to Japan on N64 it makes no sense to treat it as an N64 title for a European top 10.

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OK, here's mine, but I absolutely refuse to vote for Animal Crossing as an N64 game and will almost certainly vote for it on the GameCube list. If that nullifies my voting so be it, but seeing as the game was exclusive to Japan on N64 it makes no sense to treat it as an N64 title for a European top 10.

Fine then, you can vote for Animal Crossing if you want. That's the last time I actually listen to @Dcubed

And with that, N64 nominations are over. The N64 Shortlist consists of 16 games that all got 3 or more nominations. It was a lot more spread out than previous consoles

Spoiler

Banjo-Kazooie

Banjo-Tooie

Conker's Bad Fur Day

Diddy Kong Racing

Goldeneye 007

Lylat Wars (Star Fox 64)

Mario Kart 64

Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon

Paper Mario

Perfect Dark

Pokémon Snap

Super Mario 64

Super Smash Bros.

The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

WWF No Mercy

Voting must be done via Private Messages sent to me. This will help to prevent any possible tactical voting.

Everyone must choose 3 games to vote for.They also must be ordered from favourite to third favourite.

It'd be great if you could explain why you chose a game in the PM. I can then use these in the article that will go up on the N-Europe front page.

I reserve the right to both use and not use someone's reasons why they chose a game.

I will abstain from these votes and act as a tiebreaker. Iftwogames tie, I'll decide which game comes out on top.

I need more of you to stop being so lazy and vote. It's not much of a comprehensive top 10 if only 9 of you have done the actual voting. Don't make me step in and clean up that list. I'll get my choices in there, and do you guys really want that?

Even if you didn't nominate games for the N64, you're still free to send me a PM with the 3 games you want to vote for.

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So before I get to counting the votes and writing up the N64 article. Here's our next argument.

Game Boy Color

Releasing for Europe in 1998, the Game Boy Color is a misspelled Game Boy that improves on the original Game Boy in many ways, the most obvious one being it's colour screen. While it didn't last quite as long as the Game Boy did, the GBC stands out from other "enhanced" consoles in that it has such an extensive library of games designed for it, that it might as well have its own Top 10. And that's what we're doing now.

Quite a few restrictions on this console that I will go through now...

The Pokémon Clause applies to this console, different versions of games that have minor changes will be counted as one game. The obvious example for the Game Boy Colour is Pokémon Gold, Pokémon Silver and Pokémon Crystal. If you nominate any of these games, they must only take up one slot.

Two games that do not fit into the above Pokémon Clause are the two original Zelda games, "Oracle of Ages" and "Oracle of Seasons" While there were bonuses for owning and playing both, they are fully fledged titles on their own merits. Each having a similar amount of content to Link's Awakening.

Remakes/ports of older titles from previous Nintendo consoles are not eligible for any nominations. Unless the remake has extreme differences from the original version. For this reason, games such as Tetris DX, Link's Awakening DX and Super Mario Bros. Deluxe are not eligible for nomination.

Retro Compilation games, games that contain multiple older titles in one cartridge, are banned from this nomination. A good example is Super Mario Bros. Deluxe, seeing as it included the first two Super Mario Bros. games. These games have an inherent advantage while using older games from other consoles.

Games that were released at pretty much the same time on two different consoles will only be counted for the console that it was originally designed for. For the Game Boy Color, this means that Wario Land II is ineligible for nominations.

Games that were designed for the original Game Boy are not eligible for nomination. When selecting your games, they must all have the Game Boy Color logo on the box art. So check it if you're not sure.